SEANZITO: Sağol, Club Life A Miami

Underground music from USA! His name is Sean Collier. He’s from Florida (USA) and he runs a label “Sağol” with his label partner Jean Le Phunk. Discover his story below. Enjoy.

Hello Seanzito. Let’s start speaking about Sagol: can you tell us your first meet with Jean Le Phunk? What is the meaning of the name “Sagol”?

Jean and I first got introduced with each other through social media. Around that time, which was about a year and a half ago, we linked up while I was visiting my friend Andrew in Miami. Jean picked me up & we went to his house to work on a track together. We ended up working about 11 hours straight with some cuban coffee & smoke breaks in between. My intuition told me Jean would be the perfect partner for Sagol based off of his talent and drive. I asked him if he was interested under the condition that the name stays the same, and he was totally down for with the concept. Our meeting and partnership could be described as having blind trust and faith for one another. It’s an amazing thing really that like minded individuals could come together despite being about 450 km apart. The name “Sagol” is really “Sağol”, but Beatport and ITunes do not have the turkish “ğ” symbol so the next best thing was to just use an english “g” to make it easier to find on the web. Sağol means thanks in turkish, and we are always thankful for what we have…

Tell us a quality or an unique element of Sagol that we couldn’t find in an other label.

A unique element of Sagol is our ability to release slow, but also grooving tracks while keeping a dark groovy sound. Timeless vibe meets tough music, with an esoteric edge.

What is your ideal concept of club to play in it?

My ideal concept of a club to play in would be one that has an excellent sound system with minimal reverb along with loyal crowd who are educated in all forms of music, but particularly obscure dance music, which may be described as underground to someone.

For someone who will come the first time in Miami: which club would you like to suggest?

For someone’s first time in Miami who loves Sağol’s style, or other similar types of amazing underground music, I would personally recommend the “Electric Pickle”. The “Pickle”, run by our friend Mitch, has one of the most amazing vibes I have ever experienced in a club before. It is not the biggest club in Miami, but it makes up for its size with an amazing sound and lighting system, intimate vibe, and great hospitality to all of its patrons. They also have a sick vintage analog rotary Knob mixer.

What are your projects for Sagol in 2014? what will you do the New Year’s Eve?

Sağol’s projects for 2014 consist of timeless Ep album releases, as well as remixes from our compadres: Jean Le Phunk, Derek Marin, Inxec, David Scuba, Murat Uncuoglu & Alican, Jeff Moreno, Sepehr, Troncoso, Ahmet Sisman, Martin Aquino, Slok, Jonny Cruz, Somedude (aka Christian Cooper), Jaramillo, Jeff Moreno, Lopazz, Maulini, Sexton, Forrest Bump, Eli-J and myself. As for the Ep’s and remixes, we will also be doing a 1 year compilation release of sounds Jean and I feel best personify our musical propaganda, which will be coming out in March of 2014. Our release schedule mainly consists of releasing digitally, but we also plan on doing limited edition vinyl releases from friends and artists alike.

I celebrated New Years Eve with family and friends before my gig at Indigo in Istanbul along with Murat Uncouglu & Alican (Get Physical / Sagol ) and Wicked Wilma.